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The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft
Jim Kroft
50 episodes
3 days ago
🎙️ The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft This podcast is for creatives who’ve chosen the long road. Each week, I take one aspect of the creative life — a breakthrough, a challenge, or a tool that’s helping me — and share what I’m learning from the inside. I started the show because I couldn’t find what I needed: a companion for the real challenges of making art while building a life around it. The podcast swings between the psychological traps we face and the practical tools that keep me going. It moves between mindset and method — but always comes back to how we keep showing up. I’m Jim, your host. I’ve lived a long life in the arts — full of meteoric highs and humbling lows. Here are a few stops from the journey: 🎸 Released 7 records — from major labels to van tours 🎥 Filmed 6 feature docs, screened at 200+ festivals 🧠 Built a creative business in Berlin since 2013 ✍️ Top 1% on Substack for weekly consistency 📈 Raised nearly €100K for refugee & Ukraine war efforts 🎧 The Creative Life has hit the Apple Podcast charts Thanks for being here, Jim 🔗 Listen & Follow: Spotify Apple Podcasts Substack YouTube Instagram
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🎙️ The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft This podcast is for creatives who’ve chosen the long road. Each week, I take one aspect of the creative life — a breakthrough, a challenge, or a tool that’s helping me — and share what I’m learning from the inside. I started the show because I couldn’t find what I needed: a companion for the real challenges of making art while building a life around it. The podcast swings between the psychological traps we face and the practical tools that keep me going. It moves between mindset and method — but always comes back to how we keep showing up. I’m Jim, your host. I’ve lived a long life in the arts — full of meteoric highs and humbling lows. Here are a few stops from the journey: 🎸 Released 7 records — from major labels to van tours 🎥 Filmed 6 feature docs, screened at 200+ festivals 🧠 Built a creative business in Berlin since 2013 ✍️ Top 1% on Substack for weekly consistency 📈 Raised nearly €100K for refugee & Ukraine war efforts 🎧 The Creative Life has hit the Apple Podcast charts Thanks for being here, Jim 🔗 Listen & Follow: Spotify Apple Podcasts Substack YouTube Instagram
Show more...
Arts
Business,
Entrepreneurship
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When You Feel You Have Nothing to Give
The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft
32 minutes
1 week ago
When You Feel You Have Nothing to Give

✉️ The Creative Life Newsletter

The artist’s journey is long. I write a newsletter to help you stay on it 👉 https://jim-kroft.short.gy/0925A/Jim-Kroft-newsletter

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🎤 Welcome back to The Creative Life Podcast.

This episode is a counterpart to last week’s — but where that one was raw, unscripted, and full of spontaneous ideas in real-time, this one is more structured and delves deeper into the underlying themes.

It all began with a moment that shook me: walking into my creative space and feeling I had nothing to give.

But that feeling turned out to be a doorway — not into emptiness, but into the deeper truth of why we drift from our creative Self, and how we start finding our way back.

Drawing on ideas from Jung and Joseph Campbell, I explore why a creative block isn’t a dead end but an invitation. An inner signal that something in our life, our work, or our attention needs to change.

If you’re a creative feeling overwhelmed, flooded, or disconnected from the work you love, this episode offers a path back to building up new momentum & a way to reconnect with your centre of meaning:

  • 💧 Why we feel “empty” when the real issue is inner flooding
  • 🧭 How a single honest sentence can guide you back to the Self
  • 🌀 Why blocks are signals of transformation, not failure
  • 🔍 How societal + tech pressure seeps into your inner life
  • 🔥 Where momentum returns when you rebuild from the core

Thank you for all the support for getting here, guys - here's to Episode 50!
Jim

LINKS

📬 Substack - The Creative Life Newsletter https://www.jimkroft.substack

📺 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/jimkroft

🎧 Spotify Music: spoti.fi/4aHoI0Y

📷 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3Scy6S3

🎙️Podcast: https://bit.ly/3OycQVO


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The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft
🎙️ The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft This podcast is for creatives who’ve chosen the long road. Each week, I take one aspect of the creative life — a breakthrough, a challenge, or a tool that’s helping me — and share what I’m learning from the inside. I started the show because I couldn’t find what I needed: a companion for the real challenges of making art while building a life around it. The podcast swings between the psychological traps we face and the practical tools that keep me going. It moves between mindset and method — but always comes back to how we keep showing up. I’m Jim, your host. I’ve lived a long life in the arts — full of meteoric highs and humbling lows. Here are a few stops from the journey: 🎸 Released 7 records — from major labels to van tours 🎥 Filmed 6 feature docs, screened at 200+ festivals 🧠 Built a creative business in Berlin since 2013 ✍️ Top 1% on Substack for weekly consistency 📈 Raised nearly €100K for refugee & Ukraine war efforts 🎧 The Creative Life has hit the Apple Podcast charts Thanks for being here, Jim 🔗 Listen & Follow: Spotify Apple Podcasts Substack YouTube Instagram